2023-09-05 04:14:27
VSCodium is a binary distribution of Microsoft’s VS Code editor, community driven and under a free license. Microsoft’s vscode source code is open source (under MIT license), but the product available for download (Visual Studio Code) is not (not Free/Libre Open Source Software) and contains telemetry/tracing data.
According to this comment from a Visual Studio Code maintainer: When we [Microsoft] build Visual Studio Code, that’s exactly what we’re doing. We clone the vscode repo, create a custom product.json that contains Microsoft specific features (telmetry, gallery, logo, etc.), then produce a version that we release under our license.
When you clone and build from the vscode directory, none of these endpoints are configured in the default product.json. Therefore, you generate a “clean” version, without Microsoft’s customizations, which is by default under the MIT license.
Why does VSCodium exist?
The VSCodium project exists so you don’t have to download+build from source. This project includes special build scripts that clone Microsoft’s vscode repo, run build commands, and upload the resulting binaries for you on GitHub builds. These binaries are under MIT license. Telemetry is disabled.
If you want to build yourself from source, go to the Microsoft’s vscode repo and follow their instructions. VSCodium exists to make it easy to get the latest version of VS Code under the MIT license.
Source : VSCodium
And you ?
Do you think VSCodium is credible or relevant?
What is your opinion on this open-source and free binary version of VS Code?
See as well :
Visual Studio Code: a free editor or a trap for developers? An analysis by Geoffrey Huntley, software engineer and a DevOps engineer
Microsoft announces the release of the C# SDK for Visual Studio Code
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